Adult Learning and Education in International Contexts: Future Challenges for Its Professionalization: Comparative Perspectives from the 2016 Wuerzbur

ISBN-13: 9783631678756 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 216 str.

Regina Egetenmeyer; Sabine Schmidt-Lauff; Vanna Boffo

Opis

This volume analyses adult education and lifelong learning as international phenomena, which have a strong influence on its professionals. Based on the 2016 Wurzburg Winter School the book identifies influences on policy at local, national and international levels.

Spis treści

Adult learning - The context of international policies - Frames of professionalization in adult education - International dimensions of adult education professionalism.

O autorze

Regina Egetenmeyer is professor of adult and continuing education at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Her research focuses on cross national comparative adult education, professionalization in adult education, lifelong learning, and mobility for learning purposes.

Sabine Schmidt-Lauff is professor for continuing education and lifelong learning at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her research focuses on professionalization and professionalism in adult education, time and temporalities in adult learning, and (vocational related) lifelong and lifewide learning.

Vanna Boffo is professor of general pedagogy at the department of education and psychology at University of Florence, Italy. Her current research focuses on the pedagogy of work, educational strategies in higher education, professionalization in adult education.